Hedgehog House Nursery School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Children, including those with special educational needs (SEN) and those learning English as an additional language, make good progress from their starting points. Staff use partnerships with a range of professionals effectively to ensure children receive the extra support they need and have equal opportunities to progress to their full potential.

• Staff teach children how to stay healthy. They promote positive attitudes towards nutritious foods with effective activities. For example, children grow fruit and vegetables, they collect eggs from the nursery's chickens and enjoy cooking healthy dishes, such as soup.

Staff provide children with regul...ar opportunities for exercise, including ballet sessions and yoga. • The manager successfully ensures that staff work very well as a team and are greatly involved in ensuring children's needs are met fully. They continually support each other.

They share their observations of children's achievements and interests throughout the day, to ensure key workers can make thorough assessments of children's progress. • Staff work in close partnership with parents and involve them well in children's learning. They listen to parents and use their input to form a wide view of children's needs.

They ensure that routines and systems used with children are consistent with those parents use. • At times, staff do not act fully on opportunities to build on children's developing independence by enabling them to carry out parts of daily routines by themselves. • Staff do not consistently use teaching strategies that encourage children to extend their thoughts and ideas.